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Wednesday, 21-August-2013 20:32:31 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A few people pointed out that if you're with Kogan Mobile you're going to be having some issues soon - here's Telstra's info and Kogan's info. Given the Pre-Paid Mobile relationship with ispONE has ended, and in the absence of any direct contractual relationship with Kogan Mobile, Telstra will not be accepting new activations, number port-ins or processing credit recharges from ispONE on behalf of Kogan Mobile. An interim service will be available for a fixed period of time for people who have active pre-paid mobile services from Kogan Mobile, so that they have time to choose their next steps.
Also close to home, Australia Post have released the public beta of their Digital MailBox service. By using your digital mailbox now, you can be first to claim your username, connect to the selected service providers, start receiving some of your mail digitally and begin storing your important documents online.
Windows 8 has been banned from HWBot due to timing inconsistencies. All existing benchmarks recorded by Windows 8 have been disqualified. This is due to a fault in Windows 8's real-time clock (RTC), which all benchmarking tools use as a baseline.
Graphene continues to reveal itself as a wonder material, now being used in transistors at super-high speeds. For a start, Liu and co can build elementary XOR gates out of only three graphene field-effect transistors compared to the eight or more required using silicon. That translates into a significantly smaller area on a chip. What’s more, graphene transistors can operate at speeds of over 400 GHz. All that translates into a system that dramatically outperforms silicon.
Meanwhile from science, a get-fit drug. Treated mice become lean, develop larger muscles and can run much longer distances simply by taking SR9009, which mimics the effects of aerobic exercise. If similar effects can be obtained in people, the reversal of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and perhaps Type-II diabetes might be the very welcome result. Adminster it in burger form and I'm sold.
Tech Report are testing six SSDs to failure. Despite the perks, SSDs have a dirty little secret. Their flash memory may be inherently robust, but it's also fundamentally weak. Writing data erodes the nano-scale structure of the individual memory cells, imposing a ceiling on drive life that can be measured in terabytes. Solid-state drives are living on borrowed time. The question is: how much?
Twitter are the latest to have a data leak. The information includes every account's Twitter name, ID and authentication tokens associated with third-party apps that have access to the account (for example, Instagram or HootSuite). Passwords were not leaked.
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